The Saga of Fatima of the Gold-dust Feathers! UPDATED - Fatima died...

[Reinbeau]

I just found this thread, another great chicken story to follow!

 

[GracefulBantams]

I like the latest part

 

[crazychicken]

also see the story that we are both writing here > https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=121419&p=1

 

[GracefulBantams]

I'll go check it out

 

[HorseFeathers]

I'm glad you like it. I based the chicken-storytelling-method on traditional Shona storytelling, which is a lot of call and response.

 

[WriterofWords]

I finally got a chance to read through all the way. I love it!

 

[HorseFeathers]

Chapter Ten
Fatima of the Gold-dust Feathers sensed that the days were getting longer. The whole flock did, really; egg production increased greatly, and the general attitude in the coop was cheerful. That didn't mean that the temperature was up any, however! Nights were as cold as ever, and snow still flurried during the day. However, there was always something to keep them happy.
"I laid a brown egg!" Ophelia the Chestnut One exclaimed one morning. Now this may seem like a mundane statement, but Ophelia is a Welsummer, and was expected to lay terra cotta eggs. However, to her great disappointment, her eggs were the brown of many breeds- a little creamy, a tad of pink, but mostly the brown of coffee doused with milk.
"How?" Rita inquired curiously. "Your eggs can't just CHANGE COLOR. Why, if I could do that my eggs would be bright purple."
"I don't know," Ophelia replied serenely. "It just happened. My eggs are dark now."*
"Ooooh," they all chorused. Surely a miracle was before them!
Rita tried very hard to lay a purple egg that day. It came out the usual brown. "Shoot," Fatima heard her mutter after a wet plop sounded from the nest box.
Fatima was just as happy with her nice little green eggs. They were her pride joy and she was cheered up considerably each time she laid them. She did wonder, though (though she knew it wasn't good for her). How could an egg just suddenly change color?

(photo colors off slightly.)

 

[hcammack]

Beautiful Welsummer egg! that great

my girls have started laying a ton also

Fatima is beautiful I love EE's

 

[crazychicken]

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Good for Ophelia! I love my EE's eggs also.

They look so pretty sitting in a carton or bowl along w/all the brown tones.